British Wild Flowers
by Mrs Loudon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: William Smith, 1846 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in a newer half morocco binding with cobbled cloth sides, and small raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt titles in the compartments. With 60 hand coloured plates. The binding is in near fine condition with little wear. All page edges gilted. Marbled endpapers. Contents with 2 initial and final blanks, and half title with signature of Helen Tod 24 December 1846. Contents are complete with tissue guards to the plates and the original page marker which has become detached. Text pages have light toning towards the edges and occasional areas of spotting. Pages 70/71 have some text offsetting to text. The plates are beautifully coloured. Most have the odd spot in the top margin or side margin (less frequent); around 11 plates are clear; and a few have more pronounced spotting eg plate 24 and plate 60. The spotting can extend to the blank verso of the plate and there is some spotting to plate guards. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E C Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033288
- Title
- British Wild Flowers
- Author
- Mrs Loudon
- Illustrator
- Jane Loudon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Smith
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1846
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Loudon; british wild flowers; fine hand coloured flower plates; victorian flower books
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY; Botany; Flowers;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...